Example sentences of "what was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 2 | So erm they used to put some meat by for her to er on the cheap sort of thing what was left over on a Saturday then my mother 'd get lots of meat and that you know cheap . |
| 3 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |
| 4 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
| 5 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 6 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |